Note-book.



W. H. AVERILL.

NOTE BOOK.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 29.1915.

1,184,296. Patented Mgy23, 1916.

WILLIAM H. AVERILL, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 OWL SUPPLY COM- PANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

NOTE-BOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1916.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. AVERILL, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Boston, Dorchester district, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in N ote-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to note books such as those used by stenographers, and it has for its object to provide a note book having a confining attachment of simple construction securely engaged with one of the covers of the book, without undesirably increasing the thickness of said cover, said attachment being adapted either to hold the book in the form of a self-supporting easel standing upright on a desk, or to confine an exposed leaf and other leaves below it when the book lies flat on the desk.

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification: Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a note book embodying my invention and adjusted to stand upright on a desk; Fig. 2 represents a perspective view showing the book lying flat; Fig. 3 represents a side view of one of the covers without the attachment; Fig. 4 represents a view similar to Fig. 3, showing the attachment engaged with the cover; Fig. 5 represents a section on line 5-5 of Fig. 1; Fig. 6 represents a perspective view of the attachment; Fig. 7 represents a side view of a portion of the back cover of the book and a modified form of attachment embodying the invention; Fig. 8 represents a section on line 8-8 of Fig. 7.

The same reference characters indicate the same or similar parts in all the views.

In the drawings, referring first to Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive, 12 represents the stifl back cover of a note book, said cover being provided with transverse alined slots 13 in its opposite longitudinal edges. To the cover 12 are applied two U-shaped clips 14, each composed of a strip of thin sheet metal bent to form two ears bearing on opposite sides of the cover and a neck connecting said ears and bearing on a longitudinal edge of the cover at opposite sides of a slot 13 therein. In other words, the clips 14 bestride the slotted portions of the cover and conceal the slots. The neck portions of the clips are provided with orifices 15 coinciding with the slots 13. The edges of the slots and the clips COIIStItIItB... hinge socket members of WlllCh the walls of the orifices 15 form parts. The attachment also includes a bail bent from a length of wire to form oppositely Pro ectmg hinge pintles 17 inserted in the orifices 15 and slots ed to turn in said socket members, a transverse portion 18 adapted to extend across the book, and arm portions 19 connecting the portion 18 with the pintles 17.

he sheet metal pieces forming the clips 14 are first bent to the L-shaped form shown by full lines in Fig. 6. The pintles 17 are then inserted in the orifices 15, and confined therein by the resilience of the bail. The cover 12 is then laid upon the inner ears of the clips to cause its slots to receive the pintles 17, and the other ears of the clips are bent inwardly against the cover, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 6. The attachment is thus securely engaged with the cover, the engagement of the pintles with the edges of the slots preventing the bail and clips from moving lengthwise of the cover, and the resilience of the bail confining the pintles and clips against movement crosswise of the cover.

The bail may be adjusted to enable the book to stand upright like an easel, one leg of which is formed by the back cover 12 and the other by the cover 12 as shown by Fig. 1. The bail may also be used as shown by Fig. 2 to confine leaves of the book against the back cover 12 when the book is opened and lies flat.

It will be seen that the thickness of the cover 12 is increased only by the thickness of the thin sheet metal ears of the clips, the pintles 17 being located in the body of the cover without projecting from the sides thereof, as shown by Fig. 5.

Figs. 7 and 8 represent a modification omitting the slots 13 and showing a clip 11* bestriding the edge of a back cover 12 and having spurs 14 penetrating said cover, a bail arm 19*, and a short pintle 17 inserted in an orifice 15 in the neck of the clip and held therein by the resilience of the bail. In this embodiment of the invention the spurs 14 prevent displacement of the clips and bail from their operative positions relatively to the cover.

13, and therefore adapt- Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A note book having hinge sockets on one of its covers, a confining bail composed of a length of wire bent to form oppositely projecting hinge pintles engaged with said sockets, a transverse portion adapted to extend across the book, and arm portions connecting said transverse portion with said pintles, the pintles being held in engagement with the sockets by the resilience of the bail.

2. A note book having U-shaped clips bestriding its longitudinal edges and provided with pintle-receiving orifices, ing bail having pintles journaled in said orifices, a transverse portion adapted to extend across the book, and arms connecting the transverse portion with the pintles, means being provided for preventing displacement of the bail and clips from their operative relation to the cover.

3. A. note book having U-shaped clips bestriding its longitudinal edges and provided with pintle-receiving orifices, and a con fining bail having pintles journaled in said Copies of thil patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the and a confin-V ing the transverse portion with the pintles,

means being provided for preventing displacement of the bail and clips from their operative relation to the cover, the pintles being held in engagement with the clips by the resilience of the bail.

i. A note book having. alined transverse slots in one of its covers, U-shaped clips bestriding the slotted portions of said cover and having orifices in their neck portions alined with said slots, said clips and slots constituting hinge sockets, and a leaf-confining bail composed of a length of wire bent to form oppositely projecting hinge pintles engaged with said sockets, a transverse portion adapted to extend across the back, and arm portions connecting said transverse por tion with said pintles.

In testimony whereof I have. afiixed' my signature.

WILLIAM H. AVERILL.

Washington, D. 0.

Commissioner 012mm; 7 

